If you have to thank someone for letting you be yourself, they have power over you. So I thought watching Summer of Soul, a documentary about the 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival, which segued into Sly Lives!, a documentary about Sly and the Family Stone, the group behind the song, “Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin).” At times we all feel like mice or elves, about to be squashed. But why? If we are doing nothing criminal, why should being ourselves be treated as a criminal